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We rely on advertising to help fund our award-winning journalism. We urge you to turn off your ad blocker for The Telegraph website so that you can continue to access our quality content in the future. Thank you for your support. It is undeniably the case that racist Americans are almost entirely in one political coalition and not the other. Chris Hayes, August 18, 2012. It is true that there are more differences across party lines on policy questions such as on affirmative action, again with a mix in both parties but with more Republicans than Democrats opposing. I don’t consider these types of policy preferences to be grounds for calling someone a racist, however.

It is undeniable that some Americans are racist but racists split about evenly across the parties. No party has a monopoly on racists. It seems to me that the people who want to discriminate against Asians in things like college admissions are the racists, but what do I know. Is it education or IQ? The implication that only whites can be racist or that only racism against blacks is bad is a pretty common trope.

Proponents of race-based preferences enjoy the ad hominem of branding those opposed to AA as bitter white folk, but AA effectively subsidizes the under-achievement of blacks by punishing the success of Asians when it comes to college admissions and white-collar jobs. For blue collar jobs, however, it is indeed whites that bear the brunt of racial preferences. It sucks so bad to be white in this country. Thanks for keeping us informed on that, so often. There are very few overt racists these days. Indeed, survey responses are probably among the worst ways to measure the truth of this matter. Racism in America today is a very complex topic, and many people don’t have the emotional awareness or an adequate lexicon to understand or express their feelings about the subject.

Most people I know, regardless of their political persuasion, believe that a predominantly black neighborhood is less safe than a predominantly white one, but I don’t believe any of them would say so on a survey. That said, I took Chris Hayes’s comment to be less about generic racism and more about a specific flavor of racism that delegitimizes non-whites’ claims to economic or political power. I have a strong bias towards data and evidence, but there are times when you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. Many people don’t have an adequate lexicon to discuss racism? WTF are rou talking about?

I think you just proved his point. Does it make one racist to believe that? Does it matter if that belief is true? If not, they are simply observing that the fact is that one neighborhood is not as safe as another, and I don’t think any sane person denies that it’s so. Most people aren’t afraid of blacks in suits carrying bibles walking down the street, they’re afraid of blacks in gang inspired fashions walking down the street.